The past while, I've been struggling with a few physical symptoms (sore throat, coughing, sniffles) that have sapped my physical strength and left me running on empty, especially near the middle of the afternoon and the end of the day.
I'm not really sure if it's just overuse of the vocal cords (lots more singing last Sunday than I've been used to) or if there was a bacterial thing going on, or if it was a virus. But I've been fighting it for almost a week. Hm. Sounds viral. Anyway, I've been looking after myself as much as possible and the symptoms seem to be improving (more or less). In the meantime I wait. Get enough sleep. Take vitamins. Drink liquids. Eat soup. Sighhhh.
It probably shouldn't surprise me that it takes as long as it does to "bounce back" from something as small as a virus. I've been "bouncing back" from all kinds of things (big and small) in the last few years and every time, it amazes me that the simplest things can sometimes be the hardest to experience. Real emotions for example. It took me a long while to admit to myself that I even had them. Then even longer to experience them and not hold back just to be "nice." I'd been "nicing" myself to an early grave, clamping down on them and not letting them out when they so desperately needed to be let out!!
When my life gets out of balance, when I am letting people walk over me or I am trying to run their lives, that's when I get worn out, super-tired, and extremely irritable. It's very stressful to be on either end of that spectrum. If I'm letting people walk all over me, the stress is from resenting the fact that they don't even take me seriously, they don't care how I feel, like that. If I'm trying to manipulate the situation and control the outcome, then I have assumed a burden that is not mine to bear: that of the controller of all things (hm, I guess that would be God!!) This is extremely stressful, and it's how I lived my life before He taught me how to let go.
Letting go allows me to bounce back sooner. It gives me more stretchability. It helps me to grow, to learn, to develop.
I could learn to live with that.
I'm not really sure if it's just overuse of the vocal cords (lots more singing last Sunday than I've been used to) or if there was a bacterial thing going on, or if it was a virus. But I've been fighting it for almost a week. Hm. Sounds viral. Anyway, I've been looking after myself as much as possible and the symptoms seem to be improving (more or less). In the meantime I wait. Get enough sleep. Take vitamins. Drink liquids. Eat soup. Sighhhh.
When my life gets out of balance, when I am letting people walk over me or I am trying to run their lives, that's when I get worn out, super-tired, and extremely irritable. It's very stressful to be on either end of that spectrum. If I'm letting people walk all over me, the stress is from resenting the fact that they don't even take me seriously, they don't care how I feel, like that. If I'm trying to manipulate the situation and control the outcome, then I have assumed a burden that is not mine to bear: that of the controller of all things (hm, I guess that would be God!!) This is extremely stressful, and it's how I lived my life before He taught me how to let go.
Letting go allows me to bounce back sooner. It gives me more stretchability. It helps me to grow, to learn, to develop.
I could learn to live with that.
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